Power to try offences summarily

Any Magistrate of the first class may, if he thinks fit, try in a summary way the offences specified in sub-section (1) of section 260 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (No. 2 of 1974), or on application in this behalf being made by the prosecution, try any other offence punishable under this Act, and the provisions of sections 262 to 265 of the said Code shall apply to such trial.